"You know what? This isn't about your feelings. A human life, with all its joys and all its pains, adding up over the …"

"Why is so much of Nature at war with other parts of Nature? Because there isn't one Evolution directing the whole pro…"

"In a way, Darwin discovered God—a God that failed to match the preconceptions of theology, and so passed unheralded. …"

"Why is Nature cruel? You, a human, can look at an Ichneumon wasp, and decide that it's cruel to eat your prey alive. …"

"Declaring yourself to be operating by "Crocker's Rules" means that other people are allowed to optimize their message…"

"If you declare Crocker's Rules, other people don't need to worry about being tactful to you. (You still need to worry…"

"In the universe where everything works the way it common-sensically ought to, everything about the study of Artificia…"

"If I'm teaching deep things, then I view it as important to make people feel like they're learning deep things, becau…"

"It would actually be quite surprisingly helpful for increasing the percentage of people who will participate meaningf…"

"People go funny in the head when talking about politics. The evolutionary reasons for this are so obvious as to be wo…"